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Elizabeth Bowen: Quotes
- Absence
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.: The Death of the Heart
- Children and Childhood
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.: The House in Paris
- Experience
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself—in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.: The Death of the Heart
- Fate
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.: The House in Paris
- Innocence
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.: Orion III